A Jewish vigilante group blew up a Palestinian school
today in the West Bank village of Jaba'a injuring 20
students, two of them critically. The mayor of the
village, Lutfi Abu Oun said two students were
seriously hurt and all of the wounded were taken
to hospitals in the West Bank cities of Jenin and
Nablus.

The school headmaster, Ismail Salah, said the
explosion blew up a classroom just as the students
returned from a mid-day recess.

Desks and chairs were thrown about and splintered,
and pools of blood and glass shards littered the
floor, witnesses said.

An unknown Jewish terrorist group claimed
responsibility for the blast in a message sent to
Israeli reporters' pagers, police said.

Jewish vigilantes have carried out several attacks
against Palestinians during the 30-month-old
Palestinian struggle for independence.